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Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2004
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Since Jacob Burckhardt's Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1869) rhetoric as a significant cultural factor of the renaissance has largely been neglected. The present study seeks to remedy this deficit regarding the arts by concentrating on literary theory and its aspects of imagination (inventio), genre (dispositio of the genera), style (elocutio), mnemonic architecture (memoria) and representation (actio), with illustrative examples taken from Shakespeare's works, but also on the intermedial rhetoric of painting and music. Particular attention is given to the rhetorical ideology of the Renaissance.

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Heinrich F. Plett is full professor (chair) of English literature at the University of Essen, Germany, and director of the Centre for Rhetoric and Renaissance Studies at Essen University.

Reviews

"[...] students of rhetoric are well rewarded by the wealth of material and ideas presented."
Ina Habermann in: Anglia 2/2007

"Pletts Werk wird mit Sicherheit für Jahrzehnte die definitive Darstellung zur Renaissance als einer rhetorisch geprägten Kulturepoche sein. Von vergleichbaren älteren Klassikern wie die aus der Feder der Romanisten Curtius und Lausberg hebt sich diese Untersuchung durch ihren modernen kulturgeschichtlichen und -wissenschaftlichen, interdisziplinären und intermedialen Ansatz ab. Die anglistische Rhetorikforschung hat in diesem Fall der Romanistik den Rang abgelaufen."
Wolfgang G. Müller in: Poetica 1/2 2006

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 22, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9783110201895
Hardcover published on:
December 16, 2004
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110174618
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
15
Main content:
581
Illustrations:
94
Coloured Illustrations:
3
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